Of course, there is always room for improvement. I wouldn’t mind seeing at least one day game in the World Series. There were no night games in the World Series until 1971. But for the past quarter century all Fall Classic games have been under the lights. The last day game played in the World Series took place in 1984 when the Detroit Tigers beat the San Diego Padres in Game 5 to clinch what turned out to be their last World Series title.

But don’t even think about speeding up the games. Don’t make baseball into something that it isn’t. Baseball’s modulation is unique. There is no clock. It has its own pace. Sometimes that pace is leisurely and sometimes that pace is lightning quick. If Joseph doesn’t think baseball can be fast paced then he ought to watch Roy Halladay pitch sometime.